OUR MAKURI NOTES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5130, 14 September 1895, Page 2

OUR MAKURI NOTES.

LAWN TENNIS REACHES THE WILDS. Mr Dunning with his wife and family expect to reach Makuri during the week. Mr Dunning intends to assist in forming a tennis court on the Makuri Recreation Ground, which is 0110 of tho loveliest spots in the district. It is a natural clearing almost surrounded by the river, and enclosed by an amphitheatre of hills, the banks of the viver are overgrown by some of the rarest and and most beautiful of New Zealand flowering shrubs, the lulls are covered with a luxuriant growth of forest trees and ferns, while around the base of the hills are the white limestone roads, glimpses of which, seen through tho various colours of the foliago add to the beauty of the scene,

Mr R. Reaney, the Government Engineer, has received instructions to proceed with the widening of the Makuri-Aohangi track into a dray track.

Mr Cool, of Makuri, is erecting a new eight-roomed house on his section bought of the late Mr R. Beattie. Mr N. Tone with Mr J. Hughes, of Pahiatua, arc to make a detailed valuation of the Makuri lands, both the improved, unimproved and prairie value.

The now school for Miikuri is promised by tbe Chairman of the Education Board to be erected by X'mas, meanwhile the weather and the manufacturing-, of the school furniture, delay tbo opening of the temporary school in Mr Murphy's cottage. Mr Tell, of the Hutt, thinks of purchasing the interest of Mr Tucker in the Makurj Hotel,